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  • Stupid AWS Tricks - Simple Invoicing

    Feb 21 2023
    • aws
    • serverless
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    Like all purely rational engineers with 4 kids and no spare time, I prefer to write my own utilities to automate recurring mundane tasks rather than pay a pittance to... [Read More]
  • Adventures in Equities (2022)

    Feb 7 2023
    • investing
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    2022 was my first full year of giving serious effort to investing in equities. I enjoyed reading up on interesting companies and markets to see how they operate and which... [Read More]
  • Pooka Doesn't Do Windows

    Jan 31 2023
    • creativity
    A Pooka is a mythological creature (popular in Irish and Germanic culture) that takes on many forms. It can be a spirit of mischief, other times a creature of good... [Read More]
  • Lessons on Capital Allocation - $PAR edition

    Jan 18 2023
    • saas
    • investing
    • $PAR
    I was recently listening to the 2022Q3 earnings call from $PAR and their CEO Savneet Singh provided such a beautifully succinct explanation of how to think about capital allocation. Here’s... [Read More]
  • Complexity A-Twitter

    Dec 23 2022
    • cto
    • software
    As a software executive and engineer, it was fascinating to hear Elon’s chat with the Twitter team about the tech stack: [Read More]
  • Orwell's Rules for Writing (Software)

    Feb 26 2021
    • cto
    • startups
    • software
    • scala
    I’m in the middle of reading Churchill and Orwell: A Fight for Freedom and so far really enjoying the parallels drawn between two of history’s most important figures. Both had... [Read More]
  • Hire Joel Embiid

    Jan 15 2021
    • cto
    • startups
    • leadership
    Startups are a team sport. The players you choose to work with have such an outsized impact on the team (for good or ill) that you really have to have... [Read More]
  • What is a CTO?

    Sep 1 2020
    • cto
    • startups
    • leadership
    I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what a CTO is. It’s important to really think through this role as it can have such a huge impact on companies... [Read More]
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